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Africa North
The Muslim 'prayer bump' and Traumatic Brain Injury
2012-12-07
Aggression, depression and reasoning affected...

As reported by the Voice of America, the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood has called on its members and supporters to rally in support of fellow member, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
View slideshow: Prominent bearers of the "Prayer Bruise."

Reportedly, supporters of the Shari'a-friendly movement number in the millions in the North African nation.

A physical characteristic that many of its members, as well as millions of Muslims throughout the world share is the noticeable prayer bump, or more correctly, the zebibah (Arabic for raisin).

Seen by many of its bearers as a sign of true devotion to Islam, the cranial bruising is caused by the repeated hitting of their foreheads to the ground while making their daily Salah, or prayers required of every male Muslim.

Not Just For Boxers And Football Players Anymore...

Great Britain's Oxford University published an academic research paper entitled "Repeated mild injury causes cumulative damage to hippocampal cells," in which repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (rMTBI) has;

"An emerging hypothesis in the study of neurotrauma is that repeated mild traumatic brain injury (rMTBI) may cause cumulative damage to the brain, which could ultimately result in memory and learning dysfunction."

The medical reference website MedScape.com cites the medical term for repeated mild head trauma as Repetitive Head Injury Syndrome, authored by Dr. David Cifu, MD, and Dr. Sherwin SW Ho, MD.

The doctors pointed out that those suffering with the syndrome displayed;

"cognitive impairments when compared with a control group in the areas of episodic memory, short-term memory, visuospatial processing, object naming, and semantic processing."

The U.S. government's Center for Disease Control cited the functional changes of TBI in layman's terms;

TBI can cause a wide range of functional short- or long-term changes affecting thinking, sensation, language, or emotions.

Thinking (i.e., memory and reasoning);
Sensation (i.e., touch, taste, and smell);
Language (i.e., communication, expression, and understanding); and
Emotion (i.e., depression, anxiety, personality changes, aggression, acting out, and social inappropriateness).

As cited, TBI can also cause epilepsy and increase the risk for conditions such as AlzheimerÂ’s disease, ParkinsonÂ’s disease, and other brain disorders that become more prevalent with age.
Posted by:tipper

#8  Knotheads.
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra9196   2012-12-07 15:15  

#7  #5
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-12-07 09:18  

#6  Head banger syndrome? I always wondered about the nature/nurture aspects of cultural behavior. I wouldn't discount twobyfour's theory also. Could also be brain damage from listening to imam's endless diatribes.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-12-07 08:55  

#5  Correct g(r)om. My comment was a sort of a racist colloquialism which referenced food stamps as a potential rMTBI causation. We tend to blame everything here on poverty and circumstances as opposed to generational indolence and genetic predisposition to tribalism. On your next visit, be sure to avoid our expanding urban homelands.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-12-07 07:07  

#4  "An organism is not adapted to its environment---it's adapted to the environment of its ancestors." (As peasants they'd be Ok). Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-12-07 03:58  

#3  Plastic casting resins in EBT cards ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-12-07 02:00  

#2  Of course, now to figure out what is the cause of progressive mental dysfunction (PMD). Symptoms: Persistent cognitive dissonance, internal production of kool-aid (does not have to be ingested), circular "reasoning", sublimated persistent need for a nanny (at later stages represented by a state). Those are most prominent symptoms of many others not listed.
Posted by: twobyfour   2012-12-07 01:53  

#1  Jihadists always seemed more than somewhat deficient in certain faculties, and I thought that it could be a result of frequent inbreeding. TBI splains it.
Posted by: twobyfour   2012-12-07 01:35  

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